Blue Lives Matter (2014- ) is a movement that defends the police (who often wear blue uniforms in the US) in the face of Black Lives Matters, which protests senseless police shootings (which often kill Black people in the US).
On July 15th 2017 the races were reversed: Justine Damond, an unarmed White woman from Australia, was killed in the US by Mohamed Noor, a Black police officer from Somalia.
Hasan Ali Ibrahim on Facebook took that opportunity to defend the senseless killing of a White woman in the style of police apologists like Blue Lives Matter. Suddenly White people could see how vile such arguments are! Amazing how that works.
Here is just part of the exchange:
Hasan Ali Ibrahim: This was obviously suicide by cop. You know the stats on suicides for white women. If those people don’t care about their own lives, why wouldn’t a cop fear for his own? He is just trying to get home to his family. But the bias media won’t mention suicide rates. They want people to hate our boys in blue and take our guns. #bluelivesmatter.
Michael Castro: She in her pajamas you moron…
Ibrahim: Wearing pajamas like most meth heads that don’t have the decency to put on real clothes. I can imagine that being even more startling after hearing what sounded like a gun shot.
[…]
Sally Mbousia: Hasan was obviously there at the time given he has all these facts!
Ibrahim: I give the officers the benefit of the doubt over a suicidal methhead. They have hard, thankless jobs. We should rally behind our heroes.
Peter Bushby: Troll
Ibrahim: Patriot
Lisa Body: You sir are a vile, contemptible man – you will never be with whatever God you worship. Have fun in hell.
Ibrahim: Lisa I follow the laws of the land like it teaches in the bible. You criminals should do the same.
Jane Bodell: Are you really being serious?
David Biggar: Unless he worships satan :-\
[…]
Kelsey Randal: Victim blaming is unacceptable and this officer has a serious complaint already against him concerning a woman ! He should of been stood down or removed from the police force because of seriousness of the complaint ! All will be revealed its slowly sifting through but it will come out !
Ibrahim: The officer is the victim. To quote Clarence Thomas this is a high tech lynching. He feared for his life… the end. We have seen this over and over again and you criminals still don’t get the message. The officer is the ultimate authority and if you want to live you can’t scare them by moving your body… especially after a firework went off. The rest of the story doesn’t matter since the American court system is the fairest and most just system in the world and has ruled in favor of law enforcement in similar cases. Its always a bunch of criminals who refuse to follow the rules. Like I said… play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Thanks to Mack Lyons for linking to this exchange.
– Abagond, 2017.
Source: The Root.
See also:
- Justine Damond
- killer cops
- Black Lives Matter
- Real People, Fellow Human Beings and Despised Others
- The intelligence of White people:
- The feelings of White people:
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Well done, sir! Call that s*** out when you see it, and let ’em have it!😄
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He-lar-ree-us!!!
I have often read the same self-serving dreck Ibrahim parodied directed at distraught Black people online after the murder of a Black person by White police or civilians.
Easier to dish it out than to take it….
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Clever
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As I’ve said before, they don’t have the self-awareness to realize this is the same exact sh*t they would say about any Person of Color who lost his or her life at the hands of the police. They’re literally blind to it.
Goes to show how amazingly self-centered white society can be.
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The exchange is excellent. It raises an interesting point. Given the total lack of recording-style evidence, and the fact that the most important witness is dead, pretty much all we have to go on is the statements of the cops. Reality could range from “they are lying through their teeth” to “they are telling the 100% honest truth”.
If they are telling the truth, the picture emerging is a white woman living a privileged life (and I use “privileged” here not in the sense of “white privilege” but in the sense of “living in an affluent upper middle class neighborhood with an apparent degree of material wealth”), utterly clueless to the question whether it might be prudent to rush up to a police car out of a dark alley and slap the car to get attention when the police themselves are slowly cruising into that dark alley wondering when and how they will happen upon the violent crime they have been informed is in progress there.
In other words, she calls the popo, tells them there is a violent criminal in a dark alley, but presumes without thinking that she is within the bounds of reason to startle the cops, as if they are her personal servants. This, my friends, if true, is the quintessence of white privilege (and I use it here in the classic meaning of “white privilege”).
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@Blanc2
Interesting point. She felt probably safe with the police in a way black people usually don’t.
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I doubt if white people even understood what Hasan Ali Ibrahim was doing in his exercise to show white people who are so blinded by their “whiteness ” what they were doing when the victim is black and shot by racist cops. Many whites were doing what Abagond calls “Reading While White.”
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My favorite comment of the H.A. Ibrahim thread was posted by someone with the screen name Kelsey Randal:
That tone deaf comment got two thumbs up.
LMAO!!!
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To quote James Baldwin, “Whatever white people don’t know about negroes, reveals precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.” –The Fire Next Time
Black history is American history.
PF-T
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@PF Thought: That is a great quote.
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@ Mack @ Mary
In my experience parodies like this go right over the heads of those who need it the most.
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Blanc2,
“… as if they are her personal servants.”
This make be too far of a stretch to infer from the events. In agreement with the rest of your post, it may be inferred that her inexperience in dealing with cops in these situations, and her sense of safety around them may have influenced her lack of caution in walking up on the police car.
PF-T
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@PF Thought: Blanc 2 was on the money exactly many whites live a bubble existence Justine Damond’s bubble existence unfortunately cost her to lose her life.
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@Abagond: Exactly, the main ones who needed it most are blinded by their “whiteness.” The white normative exist in a bubble they are clueless about what black people and other people of color go through on a daily basis just trying to go about living their daily lives.
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You need to watch Falling Down starring Michael Keaton. And review it here. Same with that new movie Get Out.
Full Stop.
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@Abagond: You need to see Get Out.
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And there u have it!
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This will “go right over their heads”? The very notion is absurd! With their near-genius level ‘IQ’s’, I’m sure they will understand a simple concept like parody. And not only that, they’ll even be startled into realizing that they sound remarkably like Mr. Ibrahim whenever they make their nasty, negative comments about black victims of police murder. They invented a test to tell themselves they are smart, so I’m SURE their superior brainpower will kick in at some point, even though we’ll have a very, very, very long wait…
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“You need to watch Falling Down starring Michael Keaton.”
You mean Michael Douglas…
Get Out was different kind of movie. I liked it.
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@ Pam
“With their near-genius level ‘IQ’s’, I’m sure they will understand a simple concept like parody…They invented a test to tell themselves they are smart, so I’m SURE their superior brainpower will kick in at some point…”
So true. We are still waiting. LOL!
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Get Out was pretty chilling. The ultimate appropriation of Blackness.
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Falling Down was Michael Douglass not Michael Keaton I enjoyed that film.
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It’s funny. Some guys do not see the equallity, claimin this guy is not ‘black’ per se. Are such claims reasonable at all?
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This is what a race war looks like.
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@ Heru Sankofa
This is what normal, everyday life in America looks like for Black people.
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Wow! Just wow!
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@ Mary Burrell
I know!
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Thie Ibrahim exchange shows that White people are not suffering from low IQs or brain damage, or even from a lack of moral reasoning. Instead it shows that when it comes to Black Lives Matter many Whites are being wilfully obtuse. That comes from being brainwashed:
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